Vendradi 26 Mans 1954_/4l S)tjJneij Cja ((srieiSUHBLAKE PRIZE, 1954This year's Blake Prize exhibition on exhilarating experience Some ,,f the paintings shown are among the best «e«n recent montha and the ,-ntlre exhibition leaves ua with the mipreaalon that when local artists are presented with a great transcendant heme they can show themselves ***** equal to the task. Certainly, there rtvel were * number of artists who ob- Sain v nuafy could not combine religion Parl And art successfully, but they were ‘PP* outnumbered by those who could (nines Gleeson’s tpnnp m ffcr Qor-len la a beautiful piece, with somuMlBiledan*her horrific- pmsntp-n surrounding ^ontunlqvisithuman rigur**; Charles Hannon’s i Hilna JscnHof. the winning picture, -xpreMM a chilly bleakness rom within a simple design; g| dlchnel Kmit’s The Three Wise Men u very pli-aenntly coloured cnmpo- n^,, .itkm. Pnul Harfliger's triptych, with ram • ic central subject Salt Me To a perc, ent( is direct as n spoken warning cither d’af tista well represented are: Ericrtuth (The CrueifLrion), Weaver Haw- ie-n« (Riffhleout ImitvmitUm). Bixxictta jam «. rrontcui, IonuId Friend (.Vutieliy). Bre k|,»rf Brady (The Helrni/al), and tout i.n*tln O’Brien (.Yntfvlly), menThe exhibition, ul Murk Foy's Art a*oa •Jlery. Is at presentNEW WORKS AT NATIONALn a i i rnv rr\n mnMnouimesles